Artem Lobov

Dear Irish Times You didn’t ask me on but discussed me and my work in detail so let me assist on the question posed in your heading and a few other gaping holes. 1. I am the CEO of an organisation called @TheCountessIE. We incorporated a number of years ago. I am one of three directors. 2. We weren’t “involved in a failed Referendum” but this description from @IrishTimes is quite the tell. For us as grassroots leaders of a No/No campaign that spanned 30 locations over 7 weeks, this was a landslide victory. We view the 73.9% who voted to retain A41.2 as our constituency. 3. Our constituency do not want men in female spaces or services, prisons or shelters, sports or quotas. They know a man cannot be a woman and equality is predicated on certain accommodations like single sex spaces which provide safety, dignity and privacy for women and girls. They do not want their children indoctrinated into gender, or any other ideology at school. Far from being a twitter constituency as you describe, they are the majority. 4. Our advocacy stopped the Government removing the word woman from Maternity legislation. Our advocacy stopped the rollout of mixed sex toilets in schools. Our advocacy helped defeat the planned collapse of the gender ground and transposition of hate speech. 5. We have evolved to address the impact of immigration which like trans, is a sacred pillar of the new left that the electorate were not allowed to vote on. We observe how the media behaves the same way with regard to each of these issues. 6. We are alive to, and well versed in, the use of an ad hominem response because we dare challenge the narrative. 7. We know we represent the majority and will continue the work. 8. The work has been recognised globally. @TheCountessIE has addressed/briefed the UN alone three times, the EU parliament, Houses of Parliament, US Assistant AG among others. 9. Thank you for the ongoing coverage of the issue at hand which is the risk presented to women and children by the policy of housing unscreened male migrants en masse in residential areas. Le meas, Laoise de Brún BL